Cold hardiness is critical for blueberry plants

Our DiMeo blueberry plants are not greenhouse grown which makes them super cold hardy. Here at DiMeo Farms we grow all of our blueberry plants and bushes the same way our great-grandfather did without using greenhouses or high tunnels. All these online nurseries and big box stores are all using greenhouses so that they can push the blueberry plants with heat all winter long to get more growth out of them, but that ruins the cold hardiness of the blueberry plants and your survivability rates will be low. Always know your farmer, and how your plants were grown. It matters, big time.

[@mightyminifarm]

High tunnels and greenhouses are great for summer producing annuals but for perennials you are right, they make for weak plants.

[@dimeofarms]

The biggest problem with most plants today is that they lack cold hardiness. That’s because all these online nurseries and big box stores are all now using greenhouses and high tunnels to grow and raise all their plants (including blueberry plants) so that they can push them with heat all winter long and get them to grow faster. But that ruins the cold hardiness of the plants, because they have never been outside through a real actual winter before you bought them. Yes, when you first buy them, they might look great, but then when winter comes around and they experience frost, freeze, ice, snow and freezing cold temperatures for the very first time, guess what, that’s on your dime, and you will end up losing a lot of plants. This is why our grandfather never liked greenhouses, and why our DiMeo blueberry plants and bushes are not greenhouse grown, and it’s why they are super cold hardy. www.DiMeoFarms.com

[@Catch_u_reloadn]

That would explain how the first couple of blueberry bushes I bought from big box stores died the last one I bought was a runt and I babied it and put it outside and it's alive still

[@dimeofarms]

That is one of the best kept secrets in the plant industry. Few people ask about cold hardiness which is what they all should be asking about because all these online nurseries and other places are only using greenhouses and high tunnels to grow blueberry plants and they will look great when you get them, but they will lack cold hardiness and people end up losing a whole bunch of plants and then eventually come to us to buy their blueberry plants and bushes. www.DiMeoFarms.com

[@nikkireigns]

This explains why my three pink lemonade blueberries nearly croaked after the first winter (zone 4) but my northern/cold hardy bushes are thriving! Do you sell the pink lemonades?